Remember when it was first announced two months ago? It was just a mock-up of Digg’s website, and Teddy Hwang, the author, was afraid to release it in order not to get sued for it.

Quoting from his blog:

Wow, it never ceases to amaze me what lengths people will go to get what they want. Like all default WordPress installations, my plugin folder didnC”b,b”t have a blank index.html to hide the files. Some people have went through the trouble of downloading every single plugin I had to find out which one was the digg styled admin. I know that at least one blog is distributing it. This proves exactly why I didnC”b,b”t want to release the theme in the first place. Even though I didnC”b,b”t create the original design of digg, it sucks knowing that somebody went behind my back and took the incomplete plugin and started distributing it without my permission.

It seems that the author sent an e-mail to digg asking for permission to publish the theme, but it got stolen from him before that and being published in an incomplete version over various blogs. For those interested, here’s a video describing the theme.